"Ten" Today

Nothing like being out in front. It’s as if the experts were reading Ten (https://sites.google.com/view/time-a-trilogy/). The latest to jump into the fray is Arizona State University (ASU https://asunow.asu.edu/20170223-will-we-control-artificial-intelligence-or-will-it-control-us). On February 25, 2017, ASU will sponsor a discussion about the future of artificial intelligence, “Great Debate: The Future of Artificial Intelligence – Who’s in Control?” and promises “ The evening will be provocative and fascinating.” This is exactly what Ten is about.

As the story Ten points out, as the neuroscience of human behavior is modeled in the computer, and artificial intelligence is applied to yield predictive modeling, the ability to leverage the components of behavior to steer the neurological model, and hence the identity the model represents, will result in nothing less than directed, or controlled behavior. Just look at the underlying science (referenced in the past blog’s).

This is not magic.

This is not a guess.

This is simply, very simply, trend analysis.

So, while many will continue to write this or that about the fears and potential of artificial intelligence, the business of science will continue to slowly march on (the history of which enables a projected trend line), providing additional efficiencies and driving greater profits, and the implications of that activity will, as has always been the case, will be analyzed in the rear view mirror.

Let’s not presume how anyone might feel about this very potential outcome, rather, let’s leverage knowledge to understand what we are in the middle of. There was an interesting interview in the Atlantic titled “The Post-Human World” (link below) that, if the reader was paying attention, called out that the future is already under way, that it is so subtle that should anyone notice, the affects will be documented as a result of looking at the past to say, “How did we get here.”

Another facet on all this might be a value judgment – is this artificial intelligence thing good – a net win?

From a storyteller’s perspective, this question echo’s such great works as Aesop’s Fables and the study of ethics. And yes, the Trilogy of Time does address this question. As I look to the future, I see the past, much like Maya.

At this point, George Santayana is well worth remembering. Somehow, his words are heard in the references to the question about beauty in Ten, as if he foresaw the Trilogy of Time.

The future.

The past.

Storytelling.

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References:

Will we control artificial intelligence or will it control us?

ASU's Krauss, experts from Skype, Microsoft to debate future of AI

https://asunow.asu.edu/20170223-will-we-control-artificial-intelligence-or-will-it-control-us

The Post-Human World

A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/the-post-human-world/517206/

George Santayana

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana